The Community College

The Community College	Grant Information	Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Copyright Law, the Classroom & WebCT	Learning Communities	Service Learning
Faculty Resources - Plagiarism		Student Affairs

The Community College

American Association of Community Colleges
http://www.aacc.nche.edu/
AACC is is the primary advocacy organization for the nation's 1151 accredited two-year colleges. This site provides information on the Association's activities, as well as information on issues in education including legislation. The Associations work on the New Expeditions project which offers strategic direction for the nation's community colleges is also described here.

Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT)
http://www.acct.org/
The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) is a nonprofit educational organization of governing boards, representing more than 6,500 elected and appointed trustees who govern over 1,200 community, technical, and junior colleges in the United States, Canada, and England. This site provides information pertinent to the trustees and college administration.

Campus Compact National Center for Community Colleges
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/organizations/community/
The National Center serves as a national advocate for community colleges in service learning to sustain service learning as a national movement. It alsot serves member organizations in the promotion and implementation of service-learning as a means to improve teaching and learning. This site provides free service-learning tools and products, information model learning programs and on the latest events and opportunities.

Center for Community Colleges Policy
http://www.communitycollegepolicy.org/
The Center strives to inform policy makers of the importance and mission of community colleges by conducting research and analysis, maintaining a web-based electronic database on issues of community college policy and serving as a clearinghouse for state officials, college leaders and the media on issues of community college policy at the state level.

Community College Research Center
http://www.tc.edu/iee/
Part of the Institute on Education and the Economy at Teachers College/Columbia University, the Community College Research Center promotes research on major issues affecting the development, growth and changing roles of community colleges in the United States.

Community Colleges for International Development, Inc., (CCID)
http://ccid.kirkwood.cc.ia.us/
The CCID's mission is to provide global relationships that strengthen educational programs and promote economic development through international programs, training, and technical assisatance. The consortium is comprised of 22 member and 56 affiliate colleges representing 27 U.S. states, three Canadian provinces, Australia, UK, Denmark, and Japan.

The Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI)
http://srdc.msstate.edu/rcci/
"The RCCI is a national program that helps community colleges in economically distressed regions move their people and communities toward prosperity." Link to The Rural Community College Alliance is provided here also.

Transfer Retention
http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/truccs/
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, TRUCCS is a three-year, longitudinal and comprehensive study of the goals, success and academic patterns of 5,000 Community College students in urban Los Angeles.

21st Century Educational Leadership Profiles Project (University of Florida)
http://www.coe.ufl.edu/cclc/profileoverview.html
The Leader Profile matches individuals with the essential attributes envisioned for the work profile of the 21st Century community college president. This resource was developed with products called the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) and the Work Profiling System from SHL, Inc.

Concise Guidelines to Copyright Use
http://www.simmons.edu/libraries/copyright.html
Succinct but helpful guidelin to copryright and fair use, created by the staff at Simmons College.

Contu Guidelines on Photocopying under Interlibrary Loan Arrangements
http://www.cni.org/docs/infopols/CONTU.html
This informational page is provided by CFI, the Coalition for Networked Information, a collaborative endeavor comprised by over 200 institutions of higher learning "dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity". Additional descriptions of the CONTU Guidelines can be found at North Dakota State Library site and at UCLA's guideline page. These latter sites offer a very clear description of copyright law as it effects Interlibrary Loan procedures and policies.

Copyright.com
http://www.copyright.com
This pay-per-use system provides information on getting permission to copy and share content in paper and digital formats

Copyright Code 17
http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17
The Copyright code with discussion, provided by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University (LII). "The LII is known internationally as a leading “law-not-com” provider of public legal information." They offer "opinions of the United States Supreme Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance, over a decade of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the full United States Code".

Copyright and Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
An excellent informational site created and maintained by Stanford University.

Copyright Information for Faculty Copying
http://www.pvcc.edu/library/copying.htm
This page, created by Jessup Library staff at the Piedmont Valley Community College for their faculty, provides a very clear and understandable outline of copyright do's and don'ts.

Educator's Guide to Intellectual Property
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/copyright/
White paper created by graduate students at University of Illinois; good, if wordy, introduction to terms and issues often heard in the debate.

Fair Use Guidelines.
http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/
This nonlegislative report was adopted by the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U. S. House of Representatives, on September 27, 1996, and related to Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia.

Fair Use - Question from the University of Buffalo
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/copyright/copying_articles.htm
This page addresses the question of copying articles for academic purposes which the college library already subscribes to. A real eye opener to what is and is not appropriate.

University of Texas Crash Course in Copyrighting
One of the best sites on the subject available on the internet. As the first page states, if you want to use print, images, videos, diagrams, charts, etc. than you need to spend some time on this site. You can also learn about the copyright policies at the University of Texas here.

The University of Texas introduction to the TEACH Act.
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/
The TEACH Act expands the scope of educators' rights to perform and display works and to make the copies integral to such performances and displays for digital distance education, making the rights closer to those we have in face to face teaching

Detecting Plagiarism
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/instruction/faculty/plagiarism/detecting.htm
This site includes free sources for detecting plagiarism.

Georgetown University on Plagiarism
http://www11.georgetown.edu/programs/gervase/hc/plagiarism.html
Excellent site defining plagiarism for faculty and students alike.

Plagiarism.org
http://www.plagiarism.org/
“The Learning Center is designed to help educators and students develop a better sense of what plagiarism means in the information age, and to teach the planning, organizational, and citation skills essential for producing quality writing and research.” This site does link to detection software which can be pricey, but the free information is still very valuable and includes definitions, citation information, printable handouts and more.

O'Keefe Library on Plagiarism
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/plagiar.htm
Legal aspects and more links on the subject. Compiled by St. Ambrose University.

Plagiarism: Council of Writing Program Administrators
http://www.wpacouncil.org/node/9
Definitions, causes and shared responsibilities for students and faculty for plagiarism. Best practices and guidelines. Somewhat controversial position here. Created by the Council of Writing Program Administrators, a national association of college and university faculty.

Plagiarism Resource Site
http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/links.html
This section of the larger resource site provides links to a variety of software tools, and other resources.

Plagiarism Detection Services
http://www.lib.umich.edu/acadintegrity/instructors.htm
From the University of Michigan, this site provides good abstracts on the major detection services. Recently updated.

Strategies for Detecting Plagiarism
http://lib.iastate.edu/commons/resources/facultyguides/plagiarism/detect.html
Another site providing resources for detecting plagiarism. From Iowa State University.

University of Maryland: Plagiarism Resource Site (Detection services)
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/links_plagiarism.shtml
Lists of resources, including fee based programs. This site was created by the University of Maryland, and includes detection services, evaluation of detection services, articles on incidence, academic integrity, assignment development, etc.

NOTE: The best resource for grant writing is the Foundation Center. "Established in 1956, and today supported by more than 600 foundations, the Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers." While the Foundation Center is located in New York City, there are are Cooperative Collection Centers throughout the United States. Five such centers are operated in Massachusetts, one of which is the Berkshire Atheneum. It is highly recommended that you visit their collection. They are located on One Wendell Ave, Pittsfield, MA 01201. There phone number is (413) 499-9480.

Chronicle of Philanthropy
http://philanthropy.com/
Full text now available free providing you are on-campus. If off campus you can still access this journal for free through Gale Thomson's Expanded Academic ASAP database. Simply search publications for the Journal of Philanthropy.

Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
http://www.communityfoundation.org/
Information on grants made to nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status that serve Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties.

EPA Grants
http://www.epa.gov/region1/grants/
Grants and funding in New England.

The Foundation Center
http://fdncenter.org/
Primary resource for finding grant funding. Subscriptions are fee based, but this site provides plenty of free resource material. Especially helpful is the free grant writing tutorial (online registration, while free, is required.), establishing a non-profit, Understanding Foundations, International Grants, and many more. Many of the free tutorials and classes run ninety minutes, so give yourself time to complete these. NOTE: There are five Massachusetts Libraries housing Foundation Center Core collections, one of which is the Pittsfield Atheneum. These highly specialized and regularly updated collections are highly recommended, as they include texts outside the scope of our library.

Grant Proposal - How to Write a Grant Proposal
This commercial site, About.com, provides a general overview of grant writing, along with a lot of advertising. Still, ample and helpful links are provided and a brief description of the grant writing process is given, which while informative, is not an indepth tutoria. (See the free online tutorials through the Foundation Center above). Also, be aware that links may bring you to organizations which describe their own internal processes for submitting outside grants, and that these may not apply to your or your institution's specific needs.

GrantSmart
http://www.grantsmart.org/
GrantSmart is an informational and interactive resource center for and about the nonprofit community. We have gathered data about private foundation activities that may be of interest to grantseekers

Philanthropic Studies Index
http://cheever.ulib.iupui.edu/psipublicsearch/
Online version of the Philanthropic Studies Index (PSI, a reference tool to literature on nonprofit organizations, fundraising, and charitable giving.

Association of College Unions
http://www.acui.org/
Accessible with free user registration this site helps college unions and student activities improve their programs and services.

Student Activities Offices
http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~oslaf/saos.html
A national directory of Student Activites Offices.

Student Affairs.com
http://www.studentaffairs.com/web/
Links to professional organizations, careers, online journals and other sites of interest.

Student Affairs Research
http://www.uncc.edu/stuaffairs/sarlinks.htm
Created at the University of North Carolina, the purpose of this site is to provide you with links to college and university offices that specialize in Student Affairs Research.

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
http://www.naspa.org/
"NASPA provides professional development, promotes exemplary practices, and is a leader in policy development. NASPA helps senior student affairs officers and administrators, student affairs professionals, faculty, and other educators enhance student learning and development.